a scoop of a century
or worse. And when in Chinese hands, the data is also likely to end up, bits of it, sold off to other interested "parties", happy to pay for this information. Russians would be delighted to be allowed to bid for some records, Iranians would be even more keen to "co-operate" with China on a "far-reaching range of issues", above and below water. Short of replacing those millions of affected bods (yeah, put them in storage and churn out new model), there's very little that can be done. I bet there's a race to go through the records, both in the US and in China, to see what information can be used immediately, before the other side applies countermeasure. Somehow, in this instance, I feel nothing but sorry for the US. Well, perhaps, ironically, given the fact they see it fair to spy on the whole world: what goes round...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
